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DeMint portrayed as assassin in political cartoon

The Washington Post featured this in today’s paper as one of the better cartoons of the week:

Is it okay to portray Sen. Jim DeMint (or anyone else) as a sniper? And what, or whom, is he aiming at?

Supposedly the target is “healthcare,” but the cartoon obviously refers to DeMint’s remark about breaking Obama. It’s not much of a jump to believe that the cartoonist intends us to imagine that DeMint’s target is Obama.

Maybe I’m being touchy. It’s just a cartoon and it’s supposed to be edgy. But most Americans are quite sensitive to suggestions of presidential (or other) assassination, and particularly so when it involves a sniper taking aim from a tall building.

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Ah yes the NYT’s doing what it does best which is covering for Obama even if it means completely mischaracterizing what Senator Demint said.

A deplorable cartoon yes but shouldn’t those elephants be depicted as rhinocerotes or rather RINO’s in this case.

A better cartoon would have been Obama dressed in Napoleon’s French Uniform complete French Shakos and headdress posing with his hand stuck down in the front of his pants cupping the withdrawn nads while feeling for his ever shrinking winkie in front of a distant winter landscape of russia with Moscow clearly depicted back and to the right of the frame of the cartoon.

After 8 years of BDS and now well over a year of PDS, next we’re going to get DMDS …

How do we go about getting these people some therapy?

Mew

acat on July 25, 2009 at 8:16 PM

The left was already dabbling in Barack Obama assassination fantasies last year, where they could use his murder to destroy their Republican/conservative enemies.

If his poll numbers keep slipping and his pet causes fail to pass due to opposition from both Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats, look for those thoughts to resurface — as seen in cartoons like this — and possibly even to the point that the left fantasizes Obama as being of more value to their cause as a martyr than as president (though it’s really, really hard to imagine Joesph Biden being competent enough to take on the Lyndon Baines Johnson role of steamrolling something like New Deal II/Great Society II through Congress).

Here’s my comment written minutes ago on Jeff Danziger’s YouTube channel, where he has posted a four-minute film about himself produced by the New York Times Syndicate:

As a black conservative who wants Obama to fail in his attempt to “fundamentally transform” America, I can’t imagine the hate and ignorance that would lead one to believe Jim DeMint deserved to be equated with Dr. King’s assassin.

Do you even KNOW any conservatives, Jeff?

I noticed that whoever shot this video chickened out of showing your depiction of Condi Rice as a slave from Gone With The Wind, choosing to show the “Kool-Aid, anyone” panel instead. As Dan Rather used to say, “Courage.”

I submitted this comment, and saw “Comment Pending Approval”, which in reality means “I’m deleting all comments critical of me.” So I posted it here. Still, Danziger will have to read it to delete it, so I’m satisfied.

Danziger is a pathologically bigoted leftist twit, so the rest of the MSM will wonder what the big deal is – they won’t see anything out of place.

Incapable of self-reflection, they really do think that any opposition to their takeover and sundering of the healthcare industry is an attack of the care of health itself.

Yes, they really are that stupid. A lot of people talk of middle ways, reconciliation, or cooperation. It’s not possible, it never will be, and all attempts in that direction will fail.

You can’t reason with a Danziger, a Pelosi, a Barney Frank or an Obama. It’s not possible, because they don’t actually consider arguments, they just react to them.

The only chance we have is exposure, and that is a longshot until we can actually produce journalists that understand the difference between objectivity and neutrality in large enough numbers to actually affect coverage.

Me three. “UHC is a civil rights movement.” “Gay marriage is a civil rights movement.” Yet Lynn Sweet and Perez Hilton did much to brand Obama as hyper-partisan and even bigoted. This was a trial balloon, and Gatesgate shot it down.